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WILKES-BARRE, PA.
1858- l<M3
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Wyoming Historical and Geological Society Building.
OFFICERS, 1913.
PRESIDENT.
IRVING ARIEL STEARNS.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Rev. HENRY LAWRENCE JONES, S. T. D.
Dr. LEWIS HARLOW TAYLOR.
WILLIAM HILLARD CONYNGHAM.
Col. DORRANCE REYNOLDS.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN.
Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN.
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN.
Miss ERNESTINE MARTIN KAEHLIN.
RECORDING SECRETARY.
SIDNEY ROBY MINER.
TREASURER.
CHARLES WILBER LAYCOCK.
TRUSTEES.
ANDREW FINE DERR, ANDREW HUN LOCK,
EDWARD WELLES, RICHARD SHARPE,
HENRY HERBERT ASHLEY.
CURATORS,
Archaeology— CHRISTOPHER WREN.
Numismatics— Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN.
Mineralogy — WILLIAM REYNOLDS RICKETTS.
Palaeontology— JOSHUA LEWIS WELTER.
Palaeobotany — PROF. WILLIAM E. TRAXLER.
HISTORIOGRAPHER.
^FREDERICK CHARLES JOHNSON, M. D.
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE.
Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN, Chairman.
Miss MYRA POLAND.
GEORGE FREDERICK CODDINGTON.
ANNUAL COMMITTEES.
ESSAYS AND PAPERS.
ROBERT VAN ARSDALE NORRIS, Chairman.
JOHN CLOVES BRIDGMAN.
Miss ANNE DORRANCE.
ARCHIBALD DeWITT SMITH.
JOSHUA LEWIS WELTER.
SIDNEY ROBY MINER.
Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN.
INCREASE OF MEMBERSHIP.
CHRISTOPHER WREN, Plymouth, Chairman.
ROBERT PACKER BRODHEAD, Kingston.
STEPHEN BEERS BENNETT, West Pittston.
Dr. ARCHIE CARVER SHOEMAKER, Pittston.
WALTER CORAY SUTHERLAND, Pittston.
Miss EMMA J. JENKINS, Wyoming.
Mrs. AMELIA MARIA KENNEDY, Scranton.
ARTHUR D. DEAN, Scranton.
WILLIAM ALONZO WILCOX, Scranton.
GEORGE BAKER HILLMAN.
Miss MARTHA A DELIA MAFFET.
JAMES F. LABAGH, Wilkes-Barre.
Miss SARAH WOOD CRARY, Shickshinny.
TO ASSIST HISTORIAN.
OSCAR JEWEL HARVEY.
CHARLES WILBER LAYCOCK.
FREDERICK CHARLES KIRKENDALL.
GUY W. MOORE.
ENTERTAINMENT.
Gen. CHARLES BOWMAN DOUGHERTY.
GILBERT STEWART McCLINTOCK.
Dr. ALEXANDER GRAY FELL.
PAUL BEDFORD.
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THE WYOMING HISTORICAL AND
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY,
WILKES-BARRE, PA.
The Wyoming Historical and Geological
Society was organized in the old Fell Tavern,
Northampton street, Wilkes-Barre, February
ii, 1858, to commemorate the successful ex¬
periment made by the Hon. Jesse Fell, Feb¬
ruary 11, 1808, of burning the Wyoming An¬
thracite Coal in a domestic grate, having been
ncorporated May 10, 1858. The Society has
iiad a continuous existence of fifty-five years.
Its Fiftieth Anniversary was celebrated Feb¬
ruary 11, 1908. The Centennial of Jesse Fell’s
discovery, which has brought such immense
wealth to the Wyoming Valley and Northeast¬
ern Pennsylvania, was also celebrated by this
Society on the same day.
The experimental grate used by Judge Fell
in his discovery has long ceased to exist, but
one of his grates made and used by him in his
home is preserved in the Society Rooms.
The Society was organized to cover the
original limits of Luzerne County (1858),
therefore extends over the entire Counties of
Luzerne, Wyoming and Lackawanna.
IT APPEALS TO THE PERSONAL IN¬
TEREST AND PRIDE OF EVERY CITI¬
ZEN OF OLD LUZERNE COUNTY AS IT
STOOD IN 1858.
MEMBERSHIP.
The membership of the Society is divided
into Honourary, Corresponding and Resident
members, and the latter into Life Members
and Annual Members ; the annual dues being
five dollars, and the Life Members’ dues
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(which cover all financial obligations and con¬
stitute an invested “Life Membership Fund”)
one hundred dollars.
The Life Memberships number 207, thus the
Life Membership Fund is now $20,700.
Any person who contributes to the Society
at one time One Thousand Dollars or more is
placed on the Life Membership list as a “Bene¬
factor’''.
BUILDING.
The Home of the Society is a handsome
brick edifice in the rear of the “Osterhout Free
Library,” South Franklin Street, Wilkes-
Barre, facing the street, provided by the will of
the late Isaac S. Osterhout, a member of the
Society, who, in founding the “’Osterhout Free
Library” of this city, generously provided this
Society with a permanent home, free from all
charges of rent, light, heat or repairs. No
financial aid was given with this fine legacy.
The building is 40 feet wide by 60 feet long,
and three stories high. Its interior furnishing
of cases, desks, etc., is the work of the So¬
ciety. It is supplied with a fine large fire
proof safe, in which the rare manuscripts of
the Society are preserved.
.LIBRARY.
The Library of the Society contains 20,000
books and pamphlets, ver}r few of which are
duplicated by either the “Osterhout Free Li¬
brary” of Wilkes-Barre or the “Albright Free
Library” of Scranton, Pa.
Of the Society books, 18,000 are on Ameri¬
can History and Genealogy, and 2,000 on
Geology. The Library has also over .1,200
bound volumes of local newspapers ; the only
full set of United States “Statutes at Large”
in Northeastern Pennsylvania; and, being a
Pennsylvania State Depository and a United
States Depository, contains every title pub-
Abijah Smith Mine, Plymouth, 1807
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lished by the State and the General Govern¬
ment.
The Department of Genealogy, English and
American, contains nearly 1,000 volumes.
While this Society is a private institution,
supported solely by the dues of its members,
and its own endowment, it has opened its
library and museum for reference and study
to the public free , each week day from io
a. m. to 5 p. m. The annual visiting list of
schools, classes and invididuals numbers be¬
tween 5,000 and 6,ooo persons.
As stated, the “Osterhout Free Library”,
whose building is 25 feet distant from the
Society Rooms, and the Scranton Free Li¬
brary, 20 miles to the East of Wilkes-Barre,
two libraries aggregating near 100,000 vol¬
umes, buy very few books on American His¬
tory and Geology, and none on Genealogy, but
refer all students to the library of this Society
for such subjects. It is therefore the pur¬
veyor of these three lines of study for almost
the entire Northeastern portion of Pennsyl¬
vania.
Of magazines alone, pertaining to these sub¬
jects, the Society keeps on file one hundred
not found in the above free libraries.
A card catalogue, covering all the books in
the library (except those of the United States
Depository of about 5,000 volumes) facilities
research, and the Librarians gladly serve all
inquirers who visit the institution.
GEOLOGY.
The Geological department of the Society
contains 2,000 books and pamphlets on Geol¬
ogy, including nearly complete sets of the pub¬
lications of the Geological surveys of the
United States Government, Canada, and Mex¬
ico, and of the various States of the Union,
Geological magazines, etc.
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The Geological cabinets contain the collec¬
tion of 4,000 Paleozoic fossils presented by
the late Ralph D. Lacoe ; and the Christian H.
Scharar collection of nearly 1,000 Paleozoic
fossils from the outcropping of the Carbon¬
iferous limestone at Mill Creek, Luzerne
County, Pa., now covered by tons of culm;
also 3,000 carefully arranged mineralogical
specimens, with about 3,000 fine examples of
the anthracite coal flora, Paleobotany, num¬
bering 200 types arranged by the late Curator
R. D. Lacoe, and classified by him, Prof. Leo
Lesquereux, and David White, Curator of the
National Museum.
The Paleozoic Collection is kept in a separ¬
ate room, with library, for the use of stu¬
dents. It is, also, made practical to the public,
and especially to schools and students, by a
carefully arranged case, in the Geological
Room, containing representative specimens
showing the Terrestrial strata from the Arch¬
aean to the Cenozoic age.
ETHNOLOGY.
The Ethnological department of the Society
contains an excellent library on the subject,
and an unusually fine collection of Indian
relics of the highest quality, almost wholly
from the watershed of the Susquehanna River
and numbering fully 26,000 pieces.
This includes the “A. J. Griffith Collection”,
found in and around Pittston; the “Colonel
Zebulon Butler Collection”, from the Wyo¬
ming Valley; the “L. Dennison Stearns Col¬
lection’' and others, and especially the “Chris¬
topher Wren Collection of over 10,000 pieces
from the Susquehanna River region from the
New York line to the West Branch, formed
and presented by the Curator of Ethnology
and bearing his name. Also the superior col¬
lection made by A. F. Berlin of Allentown of
near 3,000 pieces, one-third of which are from
Indian Pots in the Society’s Collections.
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Pennsylvania and the rest from other parts of
the United States. This last collection, bought
by the Society, contains many exceedingly fine
and rare pieces from Maine to Oregon, from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
The collection of fifteen Indian pots, all
local, in the possession of the Society has been
pronounced the finest collection of Algonquin
pottery in the United States.
There are also valuable collections of Co¬
lonial domestic utensils, Revolutionary and
Wyoming Massacre relics, mementoes of the
War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil
War, 1861-1865, and the war with Spain, also
Hawaian fabrics, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese,
Philippine, African and other countries. The
American articles are worthy of a visit to the
Rooms.
PUBLICATIONS.
The Society has issued twelve volumes of
“Proceedings and Collections”, and twenty-five
pamphlet titles, containing various papers on
American History, Geology, Paleontology,
Ethnology, Numismatics, etc.
These volumes are well known in historical
and scientific circles. Each member receives
them without cost. The remainders are used
for exchanges or are sold to increase the spe¬
cial funds of the Society.
Volume XII was issued in 1912.
MEETINGS.
The Society holds at least four regular
meetings annually, for the transaction of busi¬
ness, the reading of papers, or the delivery of
lectures by selected persons on the subjects
pertaining to the purposes of the institution,
to which meetings the interested public is in¬
vited.
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FINANCES.
The Endowment Trusts of the Society
amount to $53,000, which includes 20 special
funds.
But the Society has grown so rapidly in
those ten years that its needs exceed its in¬
come and demand a larger Endowment to at
least $60,000. Its well selected library and its
scientific cabinets have become very important
educational factors, and of the thousands that
annually visit the Society fully ten per cent.,
between 600 and 700 persons, come for the
purpose of study.
The Society is one that confers honour on
its members.
Its reputation is widely known all over this
continent.
Its publications have attracted the attention
of Historical and Scientific Societies and
scholars throughout the Union.
Its value as an educator is recognized all
over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Indian Pots in the Society’s Collections.
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BY-LAWS.
MEMBERSHIP.
1. The membership shall consist of four
classes : Resident, Corresponding, Honorary
and Life.
2. The election of members shall be by bal¬
lot, and three-fourths of all ballots shall be
necessary to elect. Candidates for resident or
annual membership shall make application in
writing.
All names proposed for membership shall be
referred to the Board of Trustees as a com¬
mittee on membership, if approved by and
upon the affirmative recommendation of a ma¬
jority of such committee shall be voted upon
at any meeting of the Society. The Board of
Trustees may, by majority approval, place any
name on the Life Membership roll on payment
of one hundred dollars.
3. Any person not residing within the orig¬
inal limits of the county of Luzerne may be
elected a corresponding member. A resident
member upon removing from the county may
become a corresponding member, on giving
notice of his removal and paying all arrears ;
a corresponding member cannot continue such
after returning to the county for permanent
residence, but may become a resident member.
4. Any person of recognized attainments in
science or belleslettres shall be eligible to hon¬
orary membership.
5. No member who shall be in arrears for
two j^ears shall be entitled to vote or be eligi¬
ble to any office; and any failure to pay an¬
nual dues for two consecutive years, after due
notice from the Treasurer, shall be consid-
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ered a forfeiture of membership; and no per¬
son whose name shall be expunged from the
rolls of the society under the provisions of
this clause shall be reinstated without the pay¬
ment of his arrears, and then only at a regular
meeting, by a majority vote of the members
present.
6. The fiscal year of the Society shall begin
January first. Resident members shall pay,
upon admission, the sum of five dollars, and
after the next succeeding annual meeting the
sum of five dollars each year, excepting that
persons elected after October ist in any year
shall be exempt from payment of dues for
that year. The payment of one hundred dol¬
lars at one time by a member not in arrears
shall constitute him a life-member, with an
exemption from all future payments. Any
person contributing to the Society at any one
time a sum of not less than one thousand dol¬
lars shall be placed on the Life Membership
list as a ‘‘Benefactor". The Life Membership
list shall be published annually.
All moneys received on account of life-
memberships shall be securely invested by the
Board of Trustees in the name of the Society,
and shall form a fund to be called the Life-
Membership Fund, the interest only of which
shall be available for the uses of the Society.
The Fund called the Harrison Wright Fund,
and every other such special fund that has
been or may be given by an individual or in¬
dividuals for a specific purpose, and accepted
thus by the Trustees, such as the “Sheldon
Reynolds Fund”, the “Coxe Publication
Fund”, the “Laning Historical Fund”, the
“Butler Ethnological Fund”, the “Hayden
Geological Lecture Fund”, the “Ingham Geo¬
logical Fund”, the “Lacoe Paleozoic Fund”,
and not designated for “general purposes”,
shall bear the respective name given by the
donors, and be securely invested separately
from the “General Funds”, and the Treasurer
shall pay the interest of such special funds
semi-annually to the Librarian, who shall re¬
ceipt for the same, expend it under the direc¬
tion of the Cabinet Committee under By-Law
1 6, keep an accurate account of the expendi¬
ture, and render an annual report for each
fund separately to the Trustees.
Every Fund of one thousand dollars or
more, whether special or general, shall bear
the name given by the donors and shall be
published annually with the Treasurer’s Re¬
port.
The Trustees shall pay to the Treasurer an¬
nually the accrued interest of all General
Funds, or add the same to the funds as they
deem best for the best interests of the So¬
ciety.
Corresponding and honorary members shall
not be required to pay an entrance fee or an¬
nual dues.
7. Resignation of membership shall be
made in writing addressed to the President of
the Society.
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.
8. The officers of the Society shall be a
President, a board of five Trustees, four Vice
Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corre¬
sponding Secretary, a Treasurer, a Librarian,
an Assistant Librarian, five Curators, and a
Historiographer. The officers shall be elected
at the annual meeting, and hold office for one
year, and until their successors are elected.
9. The President, or in his absence, the
highest officer present, shall preside at all
meetings of the Society, and regulate the or¬
der thereof, and when required give the cast¬
ing vote. The President shall be ex-officio
Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
10. The Recording Secretary shall keep
full minutes of all meetings, and have the
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same transcribed into a book of record. He
shall have custody of the By-laws, records,
and all papers appertaining to his office. He
shall give notice of the time and place of all
meetings.
11. The Corresponding Secretary shall con¬
duct all the correspondence, and preserve on
file all communications addressed to the So¬
ciety. He shall keep a letter-press, or other
fair copy of all letters written by him, and
read at each meeting such part of the corre¬
spondence as the President may direct. He
shall notify officers and members of their elec¬
tion, and communicate all special votes to
parties interested therein, and acknowledge all
gifts to the several departments.
12. The Treasurer shall collect the annual
dues of the members, and other income of the
Society, and deposit the money in one of the
Wilkes-Barre banks to the credit of the So¬
ciety, subject to the check of the Treasurer.
He shall pay under proper vouchers all the
ordinary expenses of the Society; and shall,
at the annual meeting, present a statement of
the receipts and expenditures during the year,
together with a full report of the financial
condition of the Society. He shall give a bond
for the faithful performance of his duties in a
sum to be fixed by the Trustees, and by them
held as security.
13. The Librarian shall preserve and ar¬
range in proper order all books, pamphlets,
documents, manuscripts and other papers of
the Society, and keep a catalogue of the same,
numbering them with the proper numbers of
both the general and special catalogues. He
shall keep a record of all gifts and bequests to
this department, with the date and name of
the donor.
14. There shall be one Curator for each of
the following department : Archaeology and
History; Numismatics; Geology and Mineral-
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ogy ; Paleontology, and Paleozoology, or the
Lacoe Fossil Collection. Each Curator shall
have the charge and management of the spe¬
cial department assigned to his care, and shall
arrange, classify and catalogue the same in
such manner as shall be approved by the Cabi¬
net Committee. He shall keep a record of all
gifts to his department, together with the date
and name of donor. When, however, in the
judgment of the Cabinet Committee additional
aid is needed in any department above named,
Assistant Curators may be appointed or elect¬
ed from members of the Society, whose work
shall be under the direction of the Curator of
such department and of the Cabinet Commit¬
tee.
15. The Trustees shall have entire charge
of the business management of the affairs of
the Society. They shall examine and audit
the accounts of the Treasurer, and authorize
and direct the investment of the surplus
funds. They shall make such appropriations
from the funds for the library, cabinets and
other purposes as in their judgment shall seem
necessary. They shall have the power to re¬
mit the dues of members in cases when cir¬
cumstances render it proper.
16. The President, Librarian and the five
Curators shall constitute a Cabinet Committee
who shall have supervisory care of the library
and collections. They shall direct the manner
of expenditure of the moneys appropriated by
the Trustees for the maintenance and increase
of the library and cabinets, and provide suit¬
able cases, fixtures and supplies, and have
authority to make exchanges. They shall make
a detailed report at the annual meeting show¬
ing the condition of the departments under
their care.
17. A Publishing Committee shall be ap¬
pointed by the President, consisting of three
members, to hold office one year, who shall
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prepare for publication and superintend the
printing and distribution to members of all
papers and documents which by the Society
are ordered to be printed. The publications
not distributed to members or exchanged with
kindred societies shall be sold by the Trustees
and the proceeds added to the Harrison
Wright Fund or such other funds as they
think best.
18. There shall also be four other commit¬
tees annually appointed by the President, con¬
sisting of five or more members, viz. : A Com¬
mittee on Papers and Essays, a Committee on
Increase of Membership, a Committee to as¬
sist the Historian, a Committee on Entertain¬
ments.
19. The Historiographer shall collate and
keep a record of such current events of local
or public interest as he may deem worthy of
preservation; and prepare notices of members
deceased during his term of office.
MISCELLANEOUS,
20. The annual meeting shall be held on
the eleventh day of February, at eight o’clock
p. m. ; in case, however, the same falls on
Sunday, the meeting shall be held on the pre¬
ceding Saturday. Stated meetings thereafter
shall be held on the second Friday of April,
October and December, at eight o’clock in the
evening, at the hall of the Society. The Presi¬
dent may call special meetings whenever he
shall deem it necessarv. Seven members shall
constitute a quorum at any meeting.
21. The Trustees shall hold regular meet¬
ings four times each year, to-wit : on the day
of the stated or called meetings of the So¬
ciety; also adjourned and special meetings as
may be necessary. A majority of the Trus¬
tees shall be a quorum.
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22. All reports of committees must be in
writing and addressed to -the President, and
shall be recorded by the Recording Secretary.
23. All books, pamphlets and manuscripts
shall be regularly numbered and marked with
the name “Wyoming Historical and Geological
Society”, and bear the proper numbers of the
general and special catalogues.
24. All gifts to the library or cabinet shall,
when practicable, have the name of the donor
attached thereto.
25. No article belonging to the Society
shall be taken from the rooms without permis¬
sion of the Cabinet Committee.
26. No person shall have the right to use
any manuscript of the Society in the prepara¬
tion of any paper or essay unless such paper
or essay shall be read before the Society and
become its property.
27. The Society shall select, at the annual
meeting, one of the members, or some other
suitable person, to deliver an address at the
succeeding annual meeting.
28. If any member shall violate the laws
and regulations of the Society with intent to
injure its interests, written charges may be
preferred against such member at any meet¬
ing, and, after reasonable notice and hearing, .
the Society may, at the next stated meeting,
by a three-fourths affirmative vote of all mem¬
bers present, fine, suspend or expell the of¬
fending member.
29. The By-Laws may be amended at a
stated meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the
members present; provided the proposed
amendments shall have been read at the stated
meeting next preceding.
30. Cushing’s Manual shall be deemed and
taken as part of the law of this Society, sub¬
ject, however, to its Charter and By-Laws.
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ORDER OF BUSINESS AT ALL MEETINGS OTHER
THAN ANNUAL MEETINGS.
I. The Recording Secretary shall enter on
the minutes the names of members
present.
II. Minutes of last stated, and of any sub¬
sequent special, meeting read for
correction and approval.
III. Acknowledgement of contributions.
IV. Reading of correspondence.
V. Nominations for membership.
VI. Balloting for candidates for member¬
ship.
VII. Reports of officers and committees.
VIII. Deferred business.
IX. New business.
X. Addresses.
XI. Remarks or discussion.
XII. Adjournment.
ORDER OF BUSINESS AT ANNUAL MEETINGS.
I. Meeting opened with prayer.
II. Reading of minutes of last stated and
all subsequent meetings.
III. Committee on nomination of officers.
IV. Election of officers for ensuing year.
V. Reports of officers and committees.
VI. Nominations for membership and bal¬
loting for candidates.
VII. Resolutions and miscellaneous busi¬
ness.
VIII. Addresses.
IX. Remarks or discussion.
X. Adjournment.
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PUBLICATIONS
OF THE
Wyoming Historical and Geological
Society,
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
PROCEEDINGS AND COLLECTIONS.
Vols. 1-12. Wilkes-Barre. 1858-1912. 8vo.
pp . 248- 1 -298- 1 - 1 28- 1 -243- 1 -268- 1 -346- 1 -260- 1 -
329- 1 -250- 1 -256- 1 -262- 1 -253. 12 Vols. $45.00.
lets, illustrated.
Volume I, pp. 1-315, 1858-1884. Eight pamph¬
lets, illustrated. (Out of print.)
No. 1. Mineral Coal; two lectures, by Vol-
ney L. Maxwell, 1858.
No. 2. Proceedings of Annual Meeting,
1881.
Reports :
Committee on Flood in Susquehanna -
River, 1865.
A Yankee Celebration at Wyoming
in ye Olden Time, by Hon. Steu¬
ben Jenkins.
No. 3. Proceedings of Annual Meeting,
1882.
Life of Col. Samuel H. Walker,
Texan Ranger, by Gen. E. L. Dana.
No. 4. Description of the finer specimens of
Indian Earthenware Pots in the
collections of the Society, by Har-
son Wright, Ph. D., with seven
photo plates.
No. 5. List of Paleozoic Fossil Insects of
the United States and Canada, by
Ralph D. Lacoe.
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No. 6. Proceedings of the Society for 1883.
Twenty- fifth Anniversary. History
of the title to the Wyoming Monu¬
ment.
No. 7. Memorial of Isaac Smith Osterhout,
benefactor, portrait.
No. 8. Memorial. Gen. Wm. Sterling Ross
and Airs. Ruth Tripp Ross, bene¬
factors. Portraits.
Index. $8.00. Sold only with full
set of Proceedings.
Volume 2, pp. 1-294, 1883-1886, illustrations.
Charter, By-Laws and Alembership.
Alinutes; Reports of Treasurer; of Cabinet
Committee; of Librarian; Archaeology;
Numismatics, etc.; Paleontology; Miner¬
alogy ; Contributors, etc.
Conchological Report of the Collections, by
Charles F. Ingham.
Archaeological Committee; Report of Re¬
searches in the Athens, Penn’a, Locality.
Illustrated. Dr. Harrison Wright.
Indian Local Shell Beds. Illustrated. Shel¬
don Reynolds.*
Pittston Fort in 1778. Illustrated. Hon.
Steuben Jenkins.
Bibliography of Wyoming Valley. Rev.
Horace E. Hayden.*
Rev. Bernard Page, A. M., First Episcopal
Alinister of Wyoming, Pa. 1771. Shel¬
don Reynolds.*
Silver and Copper Aledals presented by
Kings of England, France and Spain to
American Indians. 1600-1800. Rev. Hor¬
ace E. Hayden.*
Report on Fossils from Lower Coal Meas¬
ures near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Prof. E. W.
Claypoole. Illustrated.*
Report on Wyoming Valley Carboniferous
Limestone Fossils. Charles A. Ashburner.
Illustrated.*
Obituaries by George B. Kulp.
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Meteorological Observations, Wyoming Val¬
ley. 1884-1886. Hon. Edmund L. Dana.
$3.00.
Volume 3, pp. 1-128. Portrait. 1886.
In Memorffim, Harrison Wright, A.M., Ph.D.
Died February 20, 1885.
Proceedings of the Society.
Resolutions. C. Ben. Johnson.
Biographical and Genealogical sketch of Dr.
Wright. George B. Kulp.
Review of the literary work of Dr. Wright.
Sheldon Reynolds.*
Poem. In Memoriam. David M. Jones.
Luzerne County Bar Proceedings.
Trustees of Osterhout Free Library, Reso¬
lutions.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pro¬
ceedings.
Volume 4, pp. xlii-201. 1893-1898. Illustrated.
Portrait. Part I.
In Memoriam. Sheldon Reynolds, A. M.
Died February 8, 1895.
Proceedings of the Society; Reports of
Officers. 1893-1898.
Report of Committee on Memorial.
History of the Reynolds Family. By Shel¬
don Reynolds.
Resolutions by various organizations.
History of the First Presbyterian Church,
Wilkes-Barre. 1772-1895. Sheldon Reyn¬
olds. Illustrated.*
In Memoriam. By Alexander H. McClin-
tock.
Bibliography of Mr. Reynolds.
Part ii.
Proceedings from 1893-1898.
Report of Officers 1893-1898.
Address of President Woodward on open¬
ing and occupying the Society’s new home,
1893*
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Annual Address of President Woodward on
“The Yankee and the Pennamite in the
Wyoming Valley.” 1769-1794.*
The Bell of the “Old Ship Zion” and sketch
of Michael Kienzle, the old sexton. Illus¬
trated. By Rev. Nathan G. Parke, D. D.
Supplement to same. Illustrated. By C. I.
A. Chapman.
The Connecticut Charter and the Declara¬
tion of Independence. By Rev. W. G.
Andrews, D. D.*
Marriages and Deaths in the Wyoming Val¬
ley. 1826-1836. By George Cahoon Lewis.
Obituaries of Members.
Charter and By-Laws of the Society.*
Officers and members of the Society. 1858-
1899.
Portraits presented to the Society.
Titles of papers read before the Society.
1858-1899.
Contributors, 1897-1898, and Index. $3.00.
Volume 5, pp. 1-264. 1898-1899. Illustrated.
Proceedings and Collections, with Reports
of Officers.
Rev. John Witherspoon, D. D., Signer of
the Declaration of Independence. By Mrs.
Charles E. Rice.*
Defense of the Delaware River in the Revo¬
lution. Bv Capt. Henrv Hobart Bellas,
U. S. A.
Matthias Hollenback’s List of Losses by In¬
dians, 1778.
The French at Asylum, Penn’a, 1793. By
Rev. David Craft.*
The Early Grist Mills of Wyoming Valley,
Penn’a. Hon. Charles A. Miner.*
Drift Mounds of the Susquehanna River.
By Frederick Corss, M. D.
Fossils in the River Drift at Pittston,
Penn’a. By Frederick Corss, M. D.
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Buried Valley and Pot-holes in the Wyo¬
ming Valley Coal Field. By Frederick
Corss, M. D.
Catalogue of the Lacoe Collection, Paleo¬
zoic Fossils, with Report of the Curator.
Ralph D. Lacoe.*
List of Taxable Inhabitants in the Town
and County of Westmoreland, Penn’a.
1776-1780. Rev. Horace E. Hayden.
Obituaries of Members, 1900. By Wesley
E. Woodruff.
Officers and Members. Contributors and
Publications of the Society.
Index. $3.00.
Volume 6, pp. 1-346. 1900. Illustrations.
Proceedings ; Minutes.
Report of Corresponding Secretary and Li¬
brarian.
Report of Treasurer.
Investigation of the Buried Valley of Wyo¬
ming. Map. By William Griffith, Geol¬
ogist.
Memorial of Ralph Depui Lacoe. By Rev.
Horace E. Hayden.*
Lacoe’s Relation to Science. By David
White, U. S. Geologist.*
Centennial of Luzerne County, Penn’a. 1786-
1886.
Chevalier de la Luzerne. Hon. E. L. Dana.
Portrait. Annotated by Rev. H. E. Hay¬
den.
The House of Lancaster to the Rescue.
William H. Egle, M. D.
The Progress of Printing in Luzerne
County. William P. Miner.
Colonel Isaac Barre, from whom Wilkes-
Barre was. named. By Sidney Roby
Miner. Portrait.*
Letter from General George Washington to
. Colonel Zebulon Butler at Wilkes-Barre,
April 7, 1780. Illustrated.
22
Early Settlement of Dallas Township,
Penn’a. By William Penn Ryman. Illus¬
trated.*
Original Draft of the Public Common and
the Public Square of Wilkes-Barre.
Vital Records of the First Presbyterian
Church, Wilkes-Barre. 1803-1829.
A Pioneer Settler of Susquehanna County,
1819. (Thomas Peironnet.)
Memorial of Dr. William Henry Egle, Hon¬
orary Member. Rev. H. E. Hayden.*
Obituaries of Members. .By Wesley E.
Woodruff, Historiographer.
Officers and Members 1901.
Portraits presented to the Society, 1899.
Contributors and Index. $5.00.
Volume 7, pp. 1-258. Illustrated. 1901.
Preface; Minutes, etc. 1901-1902.
Report of Corresponding Secretary and
Librarian.
Report of Treasurer.
Kansas Glaciation and Its Effects on the
River System of Northern Pennsylvania.
Illustrated. By Prof. E. H. Williams, Jr.*
Anthracite Coal in Wyoming Valley. By
Rev. Horace E. Hayden.
“Cist versus Fell,” or the Domestic Use of
Anthracite Coal. By William Penn Miner.
Jesse Fell’s Letter on Burning the Wyoming
Coal, 1858.
Reminiscences of Early Wilkes-Barre. By
Samuel H. Lynch.
Annual Address of the President, 1902,
“Historical Value of Coins.” By Hon.
Stanley Woodward.
The Educational Value of this Society. By
Rev. Henry Lawrence Jones, S. T. D.
Echoes of the Massacre of Wyoming, Num¬
ber One. By Rev. Horace E. Hayden.
Recommendation and Pass of William
Searle and others, July 14, 1778.
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Daniel Washburn’s Account of the Massa¬
cre of Wyoming.
Elisha Hardings Narrative of the Massa¬
cre and the Pennamite and Yankee Con¬
flict.
Orderly Book of Col. Zebulon Butler at
Wyoming, Pa., August-December, 1778.
By Rev. Horace E. Hayden.
Revolutionary Correspondence of Col. Zeb¬
ulon Butler, Wyoming, June-December,
1778.
Early History of Putnam Township, Lu¬
zerne County. By Peter M. Osterhout.
Original Records of Putnam Township,
1772-1802.
Rev. John Miller of Abington Township,
Biographical sketch by Arthur D. Dean.
Marriage Records of Rev. John Miller,
1802-1856. By Arthur D. Dean.
Marriages and Deaths in Wyoming Valley,
1797-1810. By Rev. Horace E. Hayden.
Obituaries of Members. By Rev. Horace
E. Hayden.
Officers and Members, 1902.
Contributors and Exchanges.
Publications of the Society and Index. $3.00.
Volume 8, pp. 1-329, 1902-1904. Illustrated.
Preface, Proceedings and Minutes, 1902.
Report of Corresponding Secretary and
Librarian.
Report of Treasurer.
The Atlantosaur and Titanotherium of
Wyoming. By Prof. Frederick B. Peck,
Ph. D. Illustrated.*
The Buried Valley of Wyoming. By Fred¬
erick Corss, M. D.*
A Day at Asylum, Penn’a. By Rev. David
Craft. Portrait and map.
The “Gravel Creek” Indian Stone. By Rev.
Horace E. Hayden. Illustrated.
The Stone Age in the Wyoming Valley and
Along the Susquehanna River. By Chris¬
topher Wren. Illustrated.*
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Jesse Fell’s Experimental Grate. Testi¬
mony of an Eye Witness. By Col. John
Miner Cary Marble.
Count Zinzendorf and the Moravian and
Indian Occupancy of the Wyoming Val¬
ley, 1742-1763. By Frederick C. Johnson,
M. D. Illustrated.*
Reminiscences of David Hayfield Conyng-
ham, 1750-1834, of the Revolutionary
House of Conyngham and Nesbitt. In¬
troduction, biographies and annotations
by Rev. Horace E. Hayden. Illustrations.*
Reminiscences, Revolutionary Period,
I/75-I/83.
V hiskey Insurrection, 1794.
•Kentucky Journey, 1807.
Wyoming Marriages, 1850-1894. By Rev.
Henry Hunter Welles, D. D.
Biographies of Deceased Members. By Rev.
Mr. Hayden.
Officers and Members and Contributors.
Bibliography of the Society.
Index. $5.00.
Volume 9, pp. 1-249. 1905. Illustrations.
Preface and Contents.
Report of Corresponding Secretary and
Librarian.
Report of Treasurer.
Geology and Paleontology of Patagonia.
By Prof. Wm. B. Scott, Ph. D.
Pioneer Physicians of Wyoming Valley,
1771-1885. By Frederick C. Johnson, M. D.*
Early Smoking Pipes of North American
x\borigines. By A. F. Berlin. Illustrated.
Aboriginal Potter}^ of the Wyoming Valley
— Susquehanna River Region, Penn’a. By
Christopher Wren. Illustrated.*
Roman Catholic Indian Relics in the Col¬
lections of the Society. By Charles F.
Hill. Illustrated.
Early Bibliography of Pennsylvania. By
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker.
Hartley’s Expedition Against the Indians,
1778, to Avenge the Wyoming Massacre.
By Rev. David Craft. Illustrated.
Colonel Zebulon Butler’s Tablet and Ethno¬
logical Fund. By Rev. Horace E. Hayden.
Illustrated.
Biographies of Deceased Members. By Rev.
Mr. Hayden.
Officers and Members ; Exchanges, etc.
Publications of the Society.
Index. $3.00.
Volume 10, pp. 1-256.
Preface ; Contents and Proceedings.
Report of Corresponding Secretary and
Librarian.
Reports of the Treasurer, and of the Arch¬
aeologist.
Wyoming Anthracite Coal Celebration :
Semi-centennial of the Society and
Centennial of Judge Fell’s Coal Discovery.
Judge Jesse Fell’s Experimental Grate,
1808. By Rev. H. E. Hayden.
Semi-centennial Address. By John W.
Jordan, LL. D.
Results of Judge Fell’s Experiments. By
William Griffith, C. E. Illustrated.
Account of Anthracite Mines about
Wilkes-Barre, 1821. Jacob Cist.
Glacial Rock on Shawnee Mountain, Pa. By
Frederick Corss, M. D. Illustrated.
Muster Roll of Capt. Henry Shoemaker’s
Rangers, 1781.
Olden Times in Bradford County, Penn'a.
by Joseph W. Ingham.
Original Letter from William Penn. By
Rev. H. E. Hayden. Illustrated.
Capture and Rescue of Rosewell Franklin’s
Family by Indians, 1782. By Rev. David
Craft. Map.
Marriages and Deaths, Wyoming Valley,
1910-1818. By Rev. H. E. Hayden.
j6
Continental Commission and Discharge of
Col. Zebulon Butler, 1779.
Turtle-shell Rattles from Indian Graves,
Athens, Penn’a. By Christopher Wren.
Illustrated.
Memorial Tablet to Frances Slocum, the
Lost Sister. Illustrated.
Memorial Tablet to Col. George Dorrance.
Illustrated.
U. S. Revolutionary Pensioners in Brad¬
ford and Luzerne Counties, 1835.
Biographies of Deceased Members. By Rev.
Horace E. Hayden. Illustrated.
Officers and Members of the Society.
Index. $3.50.
Volume 11, pp. 1-262; Illustrated.
Proceedings and Reports of Corresponding
Secretary, Librarian, Archaeologist and
Treasurer.
Glacial Erosion in the San Juan Mountains
of Colorado. By Thomas C. Hopkins,
Ph. D. Illustrated.*
Charles Darwin; Centennial Address. By
Miss Anne Dorrance, A. B. Portrait.*
Influence of the Iroquois on the History
and Archaeology of the Wyoming Valley.
By Arthur C. Parker. Illustrated.*
Reminiscences of Rev. Jacob Johnson, M.A.,
1722-1790. Bv Frederick C. Johnson
M. D *
The Pennsylvania Germans. By Granville
Henrv.
Marriage Records of Rev. William K. Mott,
1832-1885. By Arthur D. Dean.
Vital Statistics, Wyoming, the Ross Family
Bible Record.
U. S. Revolutionary Pension Rolls, Pike,
Susquehanna and Wayne Counties, 1835.
Biographies of Deceased Members. By Rev.
H. E. Hayden.
Officers and Members, Publications of the
Society, and Index. $3.00.
Volume 12, pp. 1-253, 1911-191 2. Illustrated.
Report of Corresponding Secretary and
Librarian.
Report of Curator of Ethnology.
Report of Treasurer.
Harrison Wright, Ph. D., Library of Eng¬
lish Heraldry. List of Books.
Central Connecticut in the Geologic Past.
Illustrated. By Prof. Joseph Barrell,
Ph. D*
Iroquois Pottery and Wampum. Illustrated.
By Rev. William M. Beauchamp, S. T. D.
Echoes of the Massacre of Wyoming, Num¬
ber Two. By Rev. H. E. Hayden.
Pension Record of Joseph Elliott.
Pension Record of William Hibbard.
Pension Record of David Marvin.
Original Commission and Discharge of Col.
Zebulon Butler, with full illustration of
both documents.
Pension Application of Mrs. Phebe Haight
Butler, Widow of Zebulon.
Life of Benjamin Smith of New York and
Exeter, Penn’a, who served in the Revo¬
lution, 1776-1783, with application for pen¬
sion of his wife, and his daughter. By
Rev. Horace E. Hayden.
Register of Communicants and of Baptisms,
1814-1859, of St. Stephen’s Protestant
Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre. Illus¬
trated.
Some Indian Graves at Plymouth, Penn’a.
By Christopher Wren, Illustrated.*
Westmoreland Town Records, 1772-1780. By
Rev. H. E. Hayden.
Marriage Certificate of Thomas Wright,
1800.
Jesse Fell’s Experiment with Wyoming
Coal. By Jesse T. Morgan.
Biographical Sketches of Deceased Mem¬
bers. By Rev. H. E. Hayden.
Officers and members.
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Index. $3.00 paper; $3.50 cloth.
These volumes can be bought separately ex¬
cept volume I, which is so rare that it is sold
only when the entire set of twelve volumes is
bought.
PAMPHLET TITLES.
A Circular of Inquiry from the Society re¬
specting the old Wilkes-Barre Academy.
Prepared by Harrison Wright, Ph. D.,
Wilkes-Barre, 1883.
The Old Academy. Interesting Sketch of its
forty-six trustees. Harrison Wright, Ph. D.
1883. $0.25.
Circular on Life Membership. 1884.
Charter, By-Laws and List of Members of the
Society, Wilkes-Barre, 1885.
Circular of the One Hundredth Anniversary
of the Erection of Luzerne County.
Coal, its Antiquity.' Discovery and early de¬
velopment in the Wyoming Valley. By Geo.
B. Kulp. 1890. $1.00.
Xotes on the Tornado of Aug. 19, 1890, in Lu¬
zerne and Columbia counties. By Prof.
Thomas Santee. 1891. $1.00.
In Its New Home. The Wyoming Historical
and Geological Society takes formal posses¬
sion of its news quarters. Address of Hon.
Stanley Woodward. Nov. 21, 1893.
The Massacre of Wyoming. The Acts of
Congress for the defense of the Wyoming
Valley, Pennsylvania, 1776-1778; with the
Petitions of the sufferers by the Massacre
of July 3, 1778, for Congressional aid. With
an introductory chapter by Rev. Horace Ed¬
win Hayden, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1895. $1.50.
Bibliography of the Wyoming Historical and
Geological Society. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1896.
Pedigree Building. Dr. William H. Egle. 1896.
The Yankee and the Pennamite in the Wyo¬
ming Valley. Hon. Stanley Woodward, 1896.
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The Frontier Forts within the Wyoming Val¬
ley, Pennsylvania. A report of the Commis¬
sion appointed by the State to mark the
Forts erected against the Indians prior to
1783, by Sheldon Reynolds, M. A. Wilkes-
Barre, Penn’a, 1896. $1.00.
The Frontier Forts within the North and
West Branches of the Susquehanna River,
Pennsylvania. A Report of the Commis¬
sion appointed by the State to mark the
Frontier Forts erected against the Indians
prior to 1783, by Captain John M. Buckalew.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1896. $1.00.
The Military Hospitals at Bethlehem and
Lititz, Penn’a, during the Revolutionary
War, by John Woolf Jordan. 1896. $0.50.
The Palatines ; or, German Immigration to
New York and Pennsylvania, by Rev. San¬
ford H. Cobb of Albany, N. Y. 1897. $0.50.
John and Sebastian Cabot. A Four Hun¬
dredth Anniversary Memorial of the Dis¬
covery of America, by Harry Hakes, M. D.
1897. $0.50.
Address by Mrs. John Case Phelps, on the oc¬
casion of the erection of a monument at
Laurel Run, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
September 12, 1896, to mark the spot where
Capt. Joseph Davis, and Lieutenant William
Jones of the Pennsylvania Line were slain
by the Indians, April 23, 1779; with the
^Sketch of these two officers by Rev. Horace
Edwin Hayden, M. A. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
1897. $1.00.
The German Leaven in the Pennsylvania Loaf.
Read before the Society May 21, 1897, by
H. M. M. Richards, 1897. $0.50.
A Honduras Trip, Hon. J. Ridgway Wright,
^ 1898.
Charter, By-Laws and Officers, 1858-1899;
Members, Papers, 1858-1899; Contributors,
&c., 8vo., pp. 36. Wilkes-Barre, 1899.
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History, Charter, By-Laws and List of
Officers, Members, etc., with Bibliography of
the Society, etc., etc. 8vo., pp. 44. Wilkes-
Barre, 1907.
Reminiscences of David Hayfield Conyngham,
1750-1834. A hero of the Revolution and
head of the house of Conyngham and Nes¬
bitt, Philadelphia, Pa. Introducing Bio¬
graphical sketches and annotations by Rev.
Horace Edwin Hayden. 8vo., pp. 118. Cloth,
Wilkes-Barre, 1904, $2.00.
^Papers privately printed.
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ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP.
HONORARY.
Joseph Barrell, Ph. D.
Rev. William M. Beauchamp, S. T. D.
Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, LL. D.
Rev. Samuel Hart, D. D.
Rt. Rev. J. M. Levering, D. D.
Thomas Lynch Montgomery.
Frederick B. Peck, Ph. D.
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker.
Charles Francis Richardson, Ph. D., Litt. D.
Joseph George Rosengarten, LL. D.
William Berryman Scott, Ph. D.
John L. Stewart, Ph. D.
Lion Gardiner Tyler, LL. D.
Rev. Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, LL. D.
David White, Washington, D. C.
Edward H. Williams, Jr., F. G. S. A.
CORRESPONDING.
Edwin Swift Balch.
Thomas Willing Balch.
Edmund Mills Barton.
T. V. Braidwood.
D. L. Belden.
Alfred Franklin Berlin.
Maynard Bixby.
Robert Alonzo Brock, F. R. H. S.
Philip Alexander Bruce, LL. B.
George Butler.
Pierce Butler.
*Gen. John S. Clark.
D. M. Collins.
Stewart Cullin.
Samuel L. Cutter.
John H. Dager.
Charles Edmund Dana.
^Deceased.
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Horatio Nelson Darton.
Harry Cassel Davis, A. M., Ph. D.
Rev. Samuel Bayard Dod, A. M.
Elnathan F. Duren.
George M. Elwood.
Prof. William Frear, Ph. D.
Hon. John Gosse Freeze.
Frank Butler Gay.
Jacob K. Griffith.
William Griffith, C. E.
P. C. Gritman.
Francis Whiting Halsey.
Stephen Harding.
David Chase Harrington.
A. L. Hartwell.
*Christopher E. Hawley.
Granville Henry.
Thomas Cramer Hopkins, Ph. D.
Ray Greene Huling, Sc. D.
Hon. William Hunting Jessup.
Charles Johnson.
John Wolfe Jordan, LL. D.
Rev. Charles H. Kidder.
Rev. Cornelius Rutser Lane, Ph. D.
Dr. J. R. Loomis.
Hon. John Maxwell.
Edward Miller.
Millard P. Murray.
Arthur C. Parker.
John Peters.
James H. Phinney.
Rev. J. J. Pearce.
William Poillon.
S. R. Reading.
J. C. Rhodes.
Joseph Trimble Rothrock, M. D.
H. N. Rust, M. D.
Lieut. Henry M. M. Richards.
William M. Samson.
Mrs. Gertrude (Griffith) Sanderson.
W. H. Starr.
*Deeeased.
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Thomas Sweet, M. D.
Hon. Charles Tubbs.
Samuel French Wadhams.
Abram Waltham.
Mrs. Margaret (Lacoe) White.
William Alonzo Wilcox.
tLIFE MEMBERS.
By payment of $100.
FOUNDERS.
*James Plater Dennis.
*Col. John Butler Conyngham.
*Hon. Henry Martyn Hoyt.
*Hon. Stanley Woodward.
t BENEFACTORS.
*George Slocum Bennett.
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr.
Mrs. Sophia E. (Norris) Coxe.
Mrs. Sophie G. (Fisher) Coxe.
Miss Amelia Baird Hollenback.
John Welles Hollenback.
Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden.
Andrew Hunlock.
Fred Morgan Kirby.
*Hon/ Charles Abbott Miner.
Abram Nesbitt.
*Isaac Smith Osterhout.
*Mrs. Elizabeth (Laning) Smith.
Irving Ariel Stearns.
*Gen. William Sterling Ross.
Lewis Harlow Taylor, M. D.
Edward Welles.
Miss Lucy W. Abbott.
*Lucius Ashley.
*Mrs. Caroline (Beadle) Ashley.
^Deceased.
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Henry Herbert Ashley.
_ •/ •<
Thomas Henry Atherton.
*Miss Emily Isabella Alexander.
*Gustav Adolph Baur.
^Joseph Habersham Bradley, Jr.
Mrs. Emily Fuller Bedford.
George Reynolds Bedford.
*Mrs. Priscilla (Lee) Bennett.
*Miss Martha Bennett.
Charles Welles Bixby.
^William Brisbane, M. D.
Robert Packer Broadhead.
*Samuel LeRoi Brown.
Mrs. Emily (Ryman) Burlingham.
Mrs. Anna Bennett (Phelps) Burrows.
George H. Catlin.
Hon. Sterling Ross Catlin.
John Nesbitt Conyngham.
William Hillard Conyngham.
^William Lord Conyngham.
*Mrs. Mae (Turner) Conyngham.
^Alexander Brinton Coxe.
*Hon. Eckley Brinton Coxe.
*John M. Crane.
*Xathan Beach Crary.
*Hon. Edmund Lovell Dana.
*Edward Payson Darling.
Thomas Darling.
*Mrs. Alice (McClintock) Darling.
Mrs. Dorothy Ellen (Dickson) Darte.
Andrew Fine Derr.
Andrew Fine Derr, Jr.
Miss Elizabeth Lowrie Derr.
Aliss Katherine Dickson Derr.
Mrs. Mary D. (Fell) Derr.
Mrs. Harriet (Lowrie) Derr.
*Henry Haupt Derr.
Thompson Derr, 2d.
* Allan Hamilton Dickson.
Mrs. Kate (Pettebone) Dickson.
*Rev. John Dorrance, D. D.
*Deceased.
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*Hon. Jesse Fell.
*Liddon Flick.
*Hon. Charles Dorrance Foster.
Mrs. Mary Jane (Hoagland) Foster.
Alexander Farnham.
*Lt. Joseph Wright Graeme, U. S. N
Mrs. Sarah H. (Wright) Guthrie.
*Col. Elisha Atherton Hancock.
*Hon. Garrick Mallery Harding.
Henry Harrison Harvey.
*Jamison Harvey.
Mrs. Jennie (DeWitt) Harvey.
James C. Haydon.
Frederick Hillman.
George Baker Hillman.
*Henry Baker Hillman.
Miss Anna Welles Hollenback.
Miss Julietta Geneve Flollenback.
^George Matson Hollenback.
*Miss Elizabeth Waller Horton.
^Francis William Hunt.
^Charles Farmer Ingham, M. D.
*Frederick Charles Johnson, M. D.
Frederick Green Johnson.
*Edwin Horn Jones.
*Richard Jones.
*Ralph Dupuy Lacoe.
*William Arthur Lathrop.
WVilliam Tompkins.
Woodward Leavenworth.
^Woodward Leavenworth, Jr.
George Cahoon Lewis.
*Edward Sterling Loop.
Charles Noyes Loveland.
Miss Elizabeth Shepard Loveland.
*George Loveland.
*William Loveland.
*William Ross Maffet.
*Col. John Miner Carey Marble.
Alvin Markle.
Andrew Hamilton McClintock.
*Mrs. Augusta (Cist) McClintock.
♦Deceased.
Col. Asher [Miner.
Mrs. Eliza Ross (Atherton) Miner.
Charles Howard Miner, M. D.
Sidney Roby Miner.
^Charles Morgan.
^Lawrence Myers.
Abraham Goodwin Xesbitt.
^Frederick Xesbitt.
*George Francis XXsbitt.
[Miss Fredericka Xesbitt.
*Ralph Xesbitt.
*Mrs. Sara Myers (Goodwin) Nesbitt.
Daniel Edwards Xewell.
Mrs. Esther (Shoemaker) Norris.
*Lewis Compton Paine.
*Rev. Nathan Grier Parke, D. D.
^Charles Parrish.
*Mrs. Mary (Conyngham) Parrish.
Mrs. Ella (Reets) Parrish.
*Calvin Parsons.
Maj. Oliver Alphonsa Parsons.
Joseph Emmet Patterson.
William Grant Payne.
William Theodore Payne.
* Payne Pettebone.
^Francis Alexander Phelps.
*John Case Phelps.
[Mrs. [Martha (Bennett) Phelps.
William John Raeder.
*John Reichard, Jr.
^Benjamin Reynolds.
*Mrs. Annie B. (Dorrance) Reynolds.
Col. Dorrance Reynolds, M. A., LL. B.
[Miss Edith Lindsley Reynolds.
*Col. George [Murray Reynolds.
Schuyler Lee Reynolds.
^William Champion Reynolds.
Robert Bruce Ricketts, 2d.
William Reynolds Ricketts.
^Ferdinand Yandevere Rockafellow.
[Mrs. Charlotte M. (Rose) Rvman.
*William Penn Rvman.
^Deceased.
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Miss Rosalys Ryman.
Theodore F. Ryman.
Joseph John Schooley.
Miss Caroline Johnston Sharpe.
Miss Elizabeth Montgomery Sharpe.
Miss Mary A. Sharpe.
*Richard Sharpe, Sr.
Richard Sharpe.
Richard Sharpe, Jr.
*Mrs. Sally (Patterson) Sharpe.
Miss Sallie Sharpe.
Miss Rosa Duncan Sharpe.
*Arthur Yeager Shepherd.
Miss Esther Shoemaker Stearns.
Addison Alexander Sterling.
Forrest Garrison Stevens.
Mrs. Sarah Coveil (Maffet) Stevens.
Walter S. Stewart, M. D.
Charles Jones Shoemaker.
Mrs. C. W. (Scranton) Shoemaker.
Miss Jane Augusta Shoemaker.
*Hon. Lazarus Denison Shoemaker.
*Levi Ives Shoemaker, M. D.
Thomas Kirkbride Sturdevant.
James Sutton.
*John Henry Swoyer.
Abram Nesbitt Smythe.
Samuel Nesbitt Smythe.
Mrs. Sarah (Nesbitt) Smythe.
Miss Katharine Conyngham Snyder.
Miss Eleanor Parrish Snyder.
Mrs. Emily (Hollenback) Taylor.
*Percy Rutter Thomas.
Miss Sallie Brinton Thomas.
*Ephriam Troxell.
Miss Rosa Troxell.
Mrs. Martha (Sharpe) Tucker.
John Augustus Turner.
Louis Hollenback Twyefforth.
*Hon. Samuel Gonsalus Turner.
^Stephen Buckingham Vaughn.
*Mrs. Esther T. (French) Wadhams.
♦Deceased.
*Calvin Wadhams.
Raymond Lynde Wadhams, M. D.
*Rev. David Jewett Waller.
Edward Welles, Jr.
*Rev. Henry Hunter Welles, D. D.
George Woodward, M. D.
Christopher Wren.
Anthony Lawrence Williams.
*Mrs. Emily L. (Cist) Wright.
^Harrison Wright, M. A., Ph. D.
Harrison Wright, 3d.
George Riddle Wright.
*Hon. Jacob Ridgwav Wright.
John B. Yeager.
Mrs. Margaret M. (Myers) Yeager.
*Elias Baylits Yordy.
♦Deceased. Total Life Members, 207.
EXTRACT FROM BY-LAWS.
fThe payment of one hundred dollars at one
time by a member not in arrears, shall consti¬
tute him a life member, with an exemption
from all future payments.
“All monevs received on account of life
membership, shall be securely invested by the
Trustees in the name of the Society, and shall
form a fund to be called ‘The Life Member¬
ship Fund,’ the interest only of which shall be
available for the uses of the Society.
i“Any person contributing to the Society at
one time a fund of one thousand dollars or
more shall be placed on the list of Life Mem¬
bers with the title of 'Benefactor'. The Life
Membership list shall be published annually.”
The life member is entitled to all the publi¬
cations and privileges of the Society, free, and
by the payment of his fee establishes a perma¬
nent memorial of his name which never ex¬
pires, but always bears interest for the bene¬
fit of the Society. His is therefore always a
living membership.
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ANNUAL MEMBERS.
Felix Ansart.
Mrs. Mary S. (Butler) Ayres.
Shepherd Ayres.
Theodore Strong Barber.
Jesse Beadle.
Andre Alden Beaumont.
Col. Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont, U. S. A.
Paul Bedford.
Reuben Nelson Bennett.
Stephen Beers Bennett.
Ziba Platt Bennett.
James Martin Boland.
Prof. Jacob P. Breidinger.
Thomas W. Brown.
John Cloyes Bridgman.
Elmer Ellsworth Buckman.
Ernest Ustick Buckman, M. D.
J. Arthur Bullard, M. D.
E. L. Bullock.
Miss Mary Gillette Brundage.
William Overfield Bunnell, M. D.
Douglass Bunting.
Edmund Nelson Carpenter.
Walter Samuel Carpenter.
Benjamin Harold Carpenter.
William Henry Castle.
Frederick M. Chase.
Miss Sara Wood Crary.
George Frederick Coddington.
Mrs. Ethel (Harrington) Connell.
Herbert Conyngham.
Mrs. Bertha (Wright) Conyngham.
Johnson R. Coolbaugh.
Prof. James Martin Coughlin.
Franck George Darte.
Luther Curran Darte.
A. Livingston Davenport.
Mrs. Louise (Kidder) Davis.
Arthur D. Dean.
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Harold Davenport Deemer.
Chester Berger Derr.
Oscar Herbert Dilley.
J. Benjamin Dimmick.
Benjamin Dorrance.
Miss Anne Dorrance.
Gen. Charles Bowman Dougherty.
Francis Douglass.
Mrs. Ella (Bicking) Emory.
Charles Enzian.
Barnet Miller Espy.
Rev. James McCullough Farr, D. D.
George H. Flanagan.
Alexander Gray Fell, M. D.
Daniel Ackley Fell, Jr.
Ralph Wingfield Ferrell.
*Hon. George Steele Ferris.
Harry Livingston French.
Mrs. Blandine J. Foster.
Ferdinand S. Fowler.
Hon. Henry Amzi Fuller.
Charles H. Gillam.
Edward Gunster.
Mrs. Mary Richardson Hand.
Maj. John Slosson Harding.
Miss Caroline Ives Harrower.
Charles D. S. Harrower.
Miss Mary Harvey.
Oscar Jewell Harvey.
Lord Butler Hillard.
Oliver Charles Hillard.
Tuthill Reynolds Hillard.
Arthur Hillman.
John Justin Hines.
S. Alexander Hodge.
John T. Howell, M. D.
Miss Augusta Hoyt.
Charles Frederick Huber.
John M. Humphreys.
Miss Anna Mercer Hunt.
Charles Parrish Hunt.
*Deceased.
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Lea Hunt.
*Edmund Hurlburt.
Miss Emma J. Jenkins.
John E. Jenkins.
Albert Beardsley Jessup.
Mrs. Georgia P. Johnson.
Mrs. Grace (Derr) Johnson.
Rev. Henry Lawrence Jones, S. T. D.
Miss Ernestine Martin Kaehlin.
Mrs. Amelia Maria (Carter) Kennedy.
Frederick Charles Kirkendall.
Ira Mandeville Kirkendall.
Charles P. Knapp, M. D.
George Brubaker Kulp.
James F. Labagh.
Elmer Henry Lawall.
Charles Wilber Laycock.
George Washington Leach, Jr.
Edwin T. Long.
Charles W. Lee.
Henry LeeL
Charles Jonas Long.
Mrs. Dora (Rosenbaum) Long.
Miss Martha Adelia Maffet.
Andrew Todd McClintock.
Gilbert Stewart McClintock.
George Roberts McLean.
William Swan McLean, Sr.
William Swan AlcLean, Jr.
Aliss Frances C. Alarkham.
Harry Clarke Alason.
Granville Thomas Alatlack, M. D.
Airs. Helen (Reynolds) Aliller.
Guy W. Moore.
Benjamin Franklin Alorgan.
Charles Evans AJorgan.
Eugene Worth Alulligan.
Charles Francis Alurray.
George Nicholson.
Robert VanAlstine Norris.
Mrs. Anna (Miner) Oliver.
^Deceased.
4*2
*Miss Frances J. Overton.
Miss Priscilla Lee Paine.
*Hon. Henry W. Palmer.
Frank Pardee.
Major Harry W. Pierce.
Israel Platt Pardee.
Frank Ellsworth Parkhurst.
William Henry Peck.
Mrs. Frances (Overfield) Piatt.
Miss Myra Poland.
Frank Puckey .
Robert A. Quinn.
John W. Raeder.
John Butler Reynolds.
Mrs. Mabel (Doudge) Reynolds.
Hon. Charles Edmund Rice.
William Henry Richmond.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Reynolds) Ricketts.
Col. Robert Bruce Ricketts.
Robert Patterson Robinson.
J. Irving Roe, M. D.
Arthello Ross Root.
Leslie Sturdevant Ryman.
John Edward Sayre.
Rabbi Marcus Salzman.
Christian H. Scharer.
James H. Shaw.
Aliss Cornelia Mary Stark.
Capt. Cyrus Straw.
Hon. Seligman J. Strauss.
Harry Oayton Shepherd.
William Carver Shepherd.
Walter Carleton Sterling.
E. H. Stevenson.
Harry B. Schooley.
Archie Carver Shoemaker, M. D.
Harold Mercer Shoemaker.
Hon. William J. Scott.
Archibald DeWitt Smith.
Ernest Gray Smith.
Rev. Winfield Scott Stites.
*Deceased.
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l)r. Louise M. Stoeckel-Lunquist.
Frank Sturdevant Stone.
William Romaine Stull.
Dunning Sturdevant.
Miss Ella Urquhart Sturdevant.
Guy Sturdevant.
Mrs. Mary (Stark) Sturdevant.
William Henry Sturdevant.
Walter Coray Sutherland.
Prof. William E. Traxler.
*Miss Ellen Elizabeth (Miner) Thomas.
Rev. Frederick von Krug, D. D.
Theodore C. von Storch.
Mrs. Frances D. Lynde Wadhams.
Moses Waller Wadhams.
Ralph Holberton Wadhams.
Levi Ellmaker Waller.
Samuel D. Warriner.
William O. Washburn.
Hon. Louis Arthur Wratres.
Hon. Frank W. Wheaton.
Henry Hunter Welles, Jr.
Mrs. Stella H. Welles.
Theodore Ladd Welles.
Joshua Lewis Welter.
Tames Pryor Williamson.
William Dwight White.
John Butler Woodward.
Frederick E. Zerby.
*Deceased. Annual Members, 191
Died . 5
186
2
Living .... 186
Life Members . . 207
Total
393
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